The blog, web, and Team Fortress 2 servers will be down briefly tonight for a little maintenance on the virtualized gateway router. Duration should be about half an hour at the most. I apologize in advance for any inconvenience.
Speaking of maintenance, I doubled my hosting bandwidth over the weekend from 5Mbps down/512Kbps up to 10Mbps down/1Mbps up. I performed a little bandwidth speed testing last night and initially I wasn’t overly pleased the results. Depending on the remote host I tested speed against, I wasn’t seeing the numbers I should be on the download side. Eventually I did find a remote host that proved I had a 10Mbps down pipe (I don’t have bursting AFAIK). On the up side (which is what really counts for hosting performance and you readers), I wasn’t able to find any remote hosts that showed I had upstream bandwidth beyond 512Kbps. I’ll be performing more tests and I will contact my service provider if I am not completely satisfied. For what I’m paying for business class broadband, I insist that I be consistently getting the 80% of the promised speeds which I believe is the SLA with my provider.
Trust me, I could go really hysterical with regards to my provider but you readers deserve better so I’ll keep it bottled up for now. Thank your lucky stars for whatever provider you have because chances are they are much better than what I have to work with.
Toodles.
Update: Bandwidth is looking good. Explanation in comments below.
Jason,
Sorry to hear the woes, I still suffer with a home charter connection.
I am very temped to check on the Quest offerings in my area.
Roger.
Charter? Funny you should mention Charter…
Humble pie is best served before calling the service provider with complaints. Luckily I checked one of my routers shortly before calling my service provider. I forgot I had manually tuned QOS and capped my own upload bandwidth at 512Kbps. Whoops. Life is good now. See the speedtest.net screenshot I added to the post.
Jason,
lol, sounds like something I would / have done.
Glad you got it working.